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If you don’t feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn’t very vital.
John Irving (via wrists)(via doseofwords)
Posted on May 2, 2012 via always, all ways. with 2,775 notes
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Plays: 60[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek (Strings Remix by Ciaran Hamilton)
This song will always be beautiful to me.
Posted on November 21, 2011 via Interweb Wanderlust with 26 notes
Source: chrispetescia
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Posted on November 13, 2011 via dvdp with 32,868 notes
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136 Creepy Wikipedia Articles
Just putting this here for future reference. I haven’t looked at any yet, so can’t vouch for their interestingness.
via b3ta
Posted on November 11, 2011 via micro.Lone Gunman with 3 notes
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And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Haruki Murakami (via rarararambles)(via doseofwords)
Posted on November 10, 2011 via Rambling Pulp with 6 notes
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brilliant
Posted on September 7, 2011 via notes on a revolution with 8 notes
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Mike Hudack: Facebook is a ponzi scheme
A ponzi scheme is an investment vehicle that promises large returns. For example, I could tell you that I have a brilliant currency arbitrage. Instead of actually earning real returns, though, I convince new investors to invest new money. I use that money…
(via mikehudack)
Posted on January 18, 2011 via Maxistentialism with 53 notes
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One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey. The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture. If we aren’t constantly testing our ability to succeed despite failure, then it isn’t likely to work when it matters most – in the event of an unexpected outage.
Netflix engineer John Ciancutti, on their Amazon Web Service tactics. (Via Netflix Techblog)(via dbreunig)
Posted on December 17, 2010 via Drewbot with 15 notes
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Joel Spolsky argues that ‘Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.’
UX Myths - Myth #25: Aesthetics are not important if you have good usability (via Uli Kusterer)(via mikehudack)
Posted on September 21, 2010 via UX Myths with 137 notes
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Search all the parks in all your cities. You’ll find no statues of committees.
David Ogilvy (via tmblg)Posted on August 15, 2010 via TMBLG with 67 notes
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